UPDATE: The Hormel food company – and the starting place for the trip – is based in Austin, Minnesota, not Austin, Texas, as we originally wrote. The text has been changed to reflect this.

It's a well-known fact: bacon makes everything better. From martinis and ice cream to filet mignon and asparagus, there's pretty much nothing you can include this gift of the swine to that it doesn't improve. Being that this is an automotive enthusiast site, you may be wondering: How does bacon improve transportation? Clearly it must, if the axiom quoted at the beginning is correct (and we've established that it is), but how?

For the answer, we turn to the crew from Hormel, which is a name you might recognize from the chilled meats section of your favorite grocery store. The Austin-based food empire has assembled a motorcycle that runs on bacon grease that would otherwise have been discarded, with the goal in mind of traveling from Austin, MN, to San Diego, CA, in time for the International Bacon Film Festival, which we didn't know existed, but in retrospect, of course exists.

The machine started life as an EVA Track T800CDI diesel-powered motorcycle, hailing from The Netherlands, and a bacon-grease conversion was performed by the crew from CSE Engineering, who are accompanying the procession as it crosses the western half of the United States as part of a 12-person team that is filming and documenting the adventure. Take a look up top for some photos of the bike and its journey, and scroll down below for a playlist of videos. And rest easy this evening with the knowledge that bacon does indeed make the world of transportation a better place to be.

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